The sun deity Beaivi withholds her rays in October, particularly in northern Norway, where in 1674, a beggar named Kirsten Iversdatter was bound to the stake. She had been accused of witchcraft, not ...

On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, a list of propositions aimed at problems in the Roman Catholic Church, to the door of the university church in Wittenberg, Germany. He wanted to ...

The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s infamous “95 Theses” has given occasion for a myriad books and reflections on what has popularly come to be called the Protestant Reformation. Amid the deluge ...

The Protestant Reformation in the 16th century is considered a pivotal event in world history. Leaders such as Martin Luther, a German Augustinian monk whose 95 theses were nailed on the door of a ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative It was over 500 years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, that a German monk, Martin Luther, initiated a split in the Roman ...

Social revolt and the revival of the Church often seem to go together. Although a social upheaval does not necessarily cause revival, history shows that a great spiritual renewal usually comes in a ...